The Goods Or The Good?
Wednesday 27 August 2008 at 6:17 pmParents are reporting anguish at not being at home enough with their children due to work: well, its their choice to a large degree.
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Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass. |
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Cartwheel Ban?Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 5:14 pmA government review has been called for to ponder a decision made by a Queensland school principle banning cartwheels and handstands in the playground. Are we mad?! Do we really require a review to give these kids back the right to such a small amount of adventure?
Brightest graudates to lift Victorian Schools?Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 12:17 amTop university students will be headhunted by the State Government and offered financial incentives to work in Victoria's most challenging schools. Is this the answer can can fresh graduates handle such a challenge?
Obesity AlarmFriday 22 August 2008 at 3:46 pmNearly half the population has been identified as being either overweight or obese. This 'growing' trend is set to continue and we are all paying for it, raising the question as to what degree we should maintain a culture that requires sacrifice from the whole for the unrealistic choices of individuals.
Feminism: in danger of becoming absolutistThursday 21 August 2008 at 2:41 pmThe brand of feminism which will not be satisfied until men and women live the exact same lives and until women don't work in the home at all is migsuided.
Loosing sleep over technologyTuesday 19 August 2008 at 4:49 pmNew research has emerged showing that many kids are depriving themselves of sleep because of their gizmos and also that fatigue contributes to depression. A healthy balance of daily interests and a respect for one's body is vital for a happy life.
Democracy for saleMonday 18 August 2008 at 1:53 pmAn offer document for ministerial audience circulated to the corporate sector by the Labor government should have us marching in the streets.
The 'Olympic' SpiritSunday 17 August 2008 at 3:36 pmThe unprecedented level of commercialism surrounding this years Olympic Games telecast on Australian television leaves something to be desired: actual coverage of the games themselves.
No ChoiceThursday 14 August 2008 at 11:44 pmDespite all the rhetoric, you as a voter have no real political choice to choose leaders who are not first and foremost part of the big business and industry driven religion of 'growth'.
State of the FutureWednesday 13 August 2008 at 11:53 amThe 2008 'State of the Future' report by the Millennium Project states that rising food and energy prices, water scarcity, climate change and increasing migration are going to fuel violence and instability around the globe over the next dacade. Yet we still don't hear any suggestions that as a species on this planet we're overpopulation ourselves.
Australian Forests Re-thoughtSunday 10 August 2008 at 2:19 pmScientists find that our native forests can store three times as much carbon than previously thought.
Bread and CircusesSunday 10 August 2008 at 1:38 pmThe embrace of Slapstick TV reminds us of a small peice of ancient wisdom that is perhaps even more relevent today as it was nearly 2000 years ago: the masses are passive and easily manipulated. Nowadays these people vote. Worrying?
Equality of OpportunityFriday 08 August 2008 at 1:07 pmWhile The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General has been asked to consider what role government can play to increase the number of women on our private sector boards, let's hope that equality of opportunity doesn't over-step its role by creating a national culture where not only men, but also capable women, feel they must leave their communities and families and enter into empires of the individual in order to achieve 'success' in Australian society.
Immigration boost for 'skills shortage'Thursday 07 August 2008 at 5:03 pmAs the call is made to boost immigration even further to a whopping annual intake of 220,000 and then 300,000 human beings because of a 'skills shortage', we point out that we are already experiencing partial or whole symptoms of overpopulation.
Fear or Live?Monday 04 August 2008 at 7:08 pmAs men are increasingly being looked upon as perverts if they even so much as look at a child, we should remind ourselves not to allow waves of collective fear, stemming from the actions of a few, dictate the affairs of everyone to the extent that we become ruled by fear.
Green houses?Sunday 03 August 2008 at 12:08 pmCan greener houses deliver net environmental benefits to Victoria when behind the scenes the state's population is rising fast? Of course not, and this sort of feeble embrace of symbolism instead of reality is becoming more and more common.
Generation Y: Too much influence?Friday 01 August 2008 at 5:53 pmGeneration Y has been charged by some people with dictating the affairs of a nation to un-proportional degrees. What are the causes and also the effects for everyone?
TV bores intelligent womenThursday 31 July 2008 at 11:45 amThere are actually people out there who recognize that television and other parts of the mass media depend on us being passive consumers of information. Those of us who see that commercial television is parasitic need to cast off the pluralistic 'live and let live' mentality and speak up.
Violent Crime Rife in VictoriaTuesday 29 July 2008 at 4:04 pmWidespread social violence is another of the negative side effects of our modern social design and culture.
When the Economy Rules the Country..Sunday 27 July 2008 at 6:18 pmMaterialism should be seen as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself.
Those Democratic GamesFriday 25 July 2008 at 3:26 pmEven some of the politicians themselves are now admitting that their main focus is on how they can injure the opposing political party in the eyes of the voting public rather than on the quest to formulate good, realistic policy. Read on for an analogy demonstrating why this is madness in the long term from a logical point of view.
Multiculturalism in Universities failingWednesday 23 July 2008 at 5:32 pmThe aggressive multi-culturalisation of our Universities is openly failing because it's an artificial process dictated by abstract bureaucratic/financial interests instead of the interests of good University life.
Pope Benedict: The Athiest's Satan?Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 3:22 pmIt seems timely to reflect a tiny bit on the Pope's visit and the basic form of his more general and public messages. It wasn't all ghostly dogmatism. Some of it was actually in tune with reality.
Announcement - ForumMonday 21 July 2008 at 11:57 amWe're merging our forum with the main Corrupt forum. There is now an Australian sub-board on the main Corrupt forum, and it will be operational ASAP. Join us for some discussion there!
CultureSunday 20 July 2008 at 5:57 pmPeople are yearning for more authentic and fruitful community relations. What are the modern causes of the walls that are isolating and restricting us from meaningul relations with others in our very own socities?
Oh BrotherFriday 18 July 2008 at 6:56 pmIf mainstream culture is anything to go by and heaps of us are more interested in watching bad television than in the processes which sustain a noble society, how can democracy, or power being held by the people, be condusive to a good society in the long term?
Universities to Select Students on 'equity'?Thursday 17 July 2008 at 2:55 pmThis particular proposal to boost the intake of students from "disadvantaged groups" smells dangerously of moral self-righteousness rather than logic.
The Dark Knight of State InterventionThursday 17 July 2008 at 2:06 pmPeople who call for government regulation because they are incapable of dealing with reality themselves on a basic level often make life increasingly tedious, patronising and restricted for everyone else who can manage on their own.
Rising food prices: is a lack of competition really to blame?Tuesday 15 July 2008 at 2:29 pmWhile a lack of competition in the domestic food retailing industry could only be conducive to higher prices for consumers, there are other and far more wide reaching structural causes of the current reality of increasing food costs.
Jana sorry about being the drama queenSunday 13 July 2008 at 2:40 pmEgo worship has infected the professional sporting world. It's increasingly all about the 'star' rather than the process, the effort, the achievement.
Corrupt DemocracyFriday 11 July 2008 at 3:30 pmMost political decisions are given impetus by factional power groups while the masses are kept happy by trifling distractions like television & other mass media, alcohol, and assurances that the status-quo will fill their bank accounts most rapidly allowing them to purchase more and more 'things'.
G8 'leadership'Tuesday 08 July 2008 at 4:05 pmIn light of the naively optimistic views aired at last year's G8 summit about the global economy and humanity, we must conclude that its constituents, the representatives of the global economic elite, really have no grasp of reality.
Expert calls for bipartisan support for emissions tradingSunday 06 July 2008 at 10:45 pmProfessor Ross Gernaut has basically highlighted the fact that modern democracy creates unnecessary division in matters of importance when in fact decisive action is needed.
Racism or a healthy opposition to Pluralism?Tuesday 01 July 2008 at 3:40 pmA stance against pluralism is not racism. Pluralism, or the 'massification'/cramming in of different value systems under the one political entity, leads to social atomisation and decay in the long term. It is failure.
The religion of HumanismMonday 30 June 2008 at 4:51 pmWhen we survey all the instances where we demand that individuals should 'live' or be 'able' to live, despite the horrific conseqences, the possibility is raised that humanism is becoming a dogmatic religion in the modern age.
The Shrug: Sexualisation of Aussie children will not be regulatedFriday 27 June 2008 at 11:30 amThe apathetic face of modern Australian society shines.
An alternative to 'economism': elitist holismThursday 26 June 2008 at 4:00 pmIn their own way more Australians are waking up the false reality of the 'economics will do and fix everything' mentality.
Democracy: don't blame the politicians or the votersThursday 26 June 2008 at 3:10 pmMass democracy is a Utopian dream that is allowing those with lots of power to manipulate vital issues to their own personal advantage via the minds of an unwitting public who are supposed to be capable of independent thought and a more than fleeting dedication to issues.
The political rally to pure economicsMonday 23 June 2008 at 4:09 pmThe mainstream political spectrum is increasingly narrowing itself to the agenda which holds that an indefinitely growing economy led by a purely economic elite is the key to all human life and problems.
Voters want Govt intervention to cut fuel pricesMonday 23 June 2008 at 3:21 pmThe people who are *supposed* to be in charge, the voting public, are ruled by emotion rather than objectivity and our parasitical politicians are all over it using it to their personal advantage
'Footy' to fix the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?Friday 20 June 2008 at 2:25 pmWe continue to show our ignorance and 'one-size-fits-all' mentality in relation to other cultures and their political situations
UN backs sef-determination and autonomy for BlacksThursday 19 June 2008 at 9:52 pmWhy is the proposal for indigenous peoples to have the right to pursue complete self-determination and autonomy so scary to us? Because of the possibility of lost food for our generic economic machine? The possibility of the end of a certain people, reminding us Westerners of our own cultural mortality?
The Welfare State of MindThursday 19 June 2008 at 9:07 pmWelfare simply makes the problems it was intended to solve worse in the long run
The decline of the WestMonday 16 June 2008 at 12:46 pmWe live in a declining society that rewards those who hold the most power when they fail: how telling is this?
Humanitarian intervention?Saturday 14 June 2008 at 12:35 pmThose with an eye on reality are slowly waking up to the disasterous effects the globalist regime, which our government is all too frequently a part of, is having upon the globe with its materialistic and one size fits all mentality.
Foreign students exploitedThursday 12 June 2008 at 3:48 pmThe exploitation of foreign students represents yet another darkside of the multicultural dream.
On the pissTuesday 10 June 2008 at 7:58 pmWe live in an increasingly booze-drenched and violent culture. Its time to ask: why? What structural problems are causing this?
Australians: laid back? free? Not these daysTuesday 10 June 2008 at 7:17 pmWe are working harder for a design that is paradoxically moving further out of our control: is this progress?
The fashion of MulticulturalismSunday 01 June 2008 at 3:35 pmDo we possess any real understanding of Multiculturalism or is it simply another one of the herd mentalities going round these days?
Outrage over nude children exhibitionWednesday 28 May 2008 at 12:00 pmWe hope the same vehemence that has been displayed towards one artist by detractors of this exhibition will now be directed at entire industries that are profiting from the sexualisation of children.
Sex change approved for 12 y/oSunday 25 May 2008 at 2:23 pmThe same thinking behind many of our social problems is surely reaching full swing in true absurdity if we are allowing children as young as 12 to make the sweeping descision to alter their own gender.
Inflation & Economics as rhetoric and political point scoringWednesday 21 May 2008 at 9:26 pmDo our economists sometimes simply chase ghosts? Are our politicans responsible in any signficant way for our current economic propserity as they say they are? A Nobel Prize-winning US economist gives Australians his view.
Will we learn from UK's social policies?Sunday 18 May 2008 at 5:14 pmThe UK is suffering from a lack of social consensus due to poor social design. Are we following?
Girl gangs, violence on the riseMonday 12 May 2008 at 01:25 amAntisocial behaviour increasingly emabarked upon by girls is linked to a widespread lack of proper parenting and the pressure society is placing on young females to be 'masculine' and aggressive.
NAB posts $2.68 Billion net profit despite 'increased costs'Thursday 08 May 2008 at 9:00 pmAgain a major bank who previously proclaimed 'increased costs' and passed on these 'increased costs' to customers has now turned around to report unprecedented profits. While businesses obviously exist to make money and should not be derided for doing so in a noble manner, a society will inevitably be damaged in the long term if within its circles of commerce profit is made simply through deceit and misrepresentation rather than by the production and sale of goods and services of marketable quality.
Qld water use rises again, nation-wide drought persistsTuesday 06 May 2008 at 10:17 pmBoth new water consumption worries and drought raise the question of whether Australia can continue supporting domestic population increase and also the current staggering net levels of immigration.
Nurse suspended after smacking unruly toddler in the ERSaturday 03 May 2008 at 7:43 pmA nurse is suspended and is facing questioning from police after smacking a dangerously unruly visiting child on the bottom in the emergency room of a hospital in an attempt to restore order. This overly soft mentality sheds light upon why youths are increasingly becoming alarmingly individualistic and destructive.
Govt pledges $30 million in food aid for global food shortageFriday 02 May 2008 at 12:00 amOne of the symptoms of world overpopulation, i.e. increasing food prices, has come to the public's attention but the emotional as opposed to logical response by our government will simply not help things in the long run.
Chain stores driving up food pricesWednesday 30 April 2008 at 11:23 pmOur large supermarkets have recently reflected the wider phenomenon of big business ganging up in oligarchies and dictating affairs to the long term detriment of society as a whole.
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